Doubtful. Cavernous sinus thrombosis is a very serious acute condition which causes progressive and severe headache along with eye and other neurological abnormalities. It is usually fatal without emergency and very intensive specialized treatment.

Unlikely. This is unlikely in an isolated whiplash injury. However, if there is a skull base fracture at the back of the head, it is possible to have a thrombosis of the transverse sinus(a large venous structure). The likelihood of this is greater, the larger the fracture is. With the fracture, there is injury to the underlying transverse sinus which can lead it to clot-ie. Thrombose.
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See below. Typically, presentation similar to stroke with focal weakness, numbness, imbalance, but on occasion such a problem is associated with increased intracranial pressure due to pseudo tumor cerebri. If you have such issues, you do need expert neurological care.
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Cerebral vein thromb. It is formation of blood clots in cerebral veins/venous sinuses in brain. It could cause altered mental status or hemiplegia or stroke. In severe cases it needs open thrombectomy or thrombolytic therapy. If there are any seizures then it needs anticonvulsant medications.
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Hard to say. There may in fact be an underlying causation creating susceptibility to both, and one might consider an immune mediated process or even, something like one of the antiphospholipid antibody syndromes. However, the shingles did not cause the venous thrombosis. Yet, the two items signal some general pathology, and worthwhile to fully evaluate.
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Different techniques. Mri are better at seeing some soft tissue features; ct is better at bones and other soft tissue features like edema (swelling). The 2 techniques are complementary. That's why you got both. The fact that it isn't seen on one doesn't negate the fact that it was seen on the other. Example: if you misplace your keys and can't find them with sunglasses but do with bifocals, are they found?
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PERHAPS THIS . Mri probably is far better with brain lesions and cat superior for bone pathology. That said, likely without ct-angio or venogram, MRI better shot for venous thrombosis, and should have imaged optic nerves also more better. Maybe depends on whether read by neuroradiologist. Long and short, MRI is best choice for evaluation of specific brain lesions of all kinds.
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Unlikely. This is unlikely in an isolated whiplash injury. However, if there is a skull base fracture at the back of the head, it is possible to have a thrombosis of the transverse sinus(a large venous structure). The likelihood of this is greater, the larger the fracture is. With the fracture, there is injury to the underlying transverse sinus which can lead it to clot-ie. Thrombose.
Read more...

See below. Typically, presentation similar to stroke with focal weakness, numbness, imbalance, but on occasion such a problem is associated with increased intracranial pressure due to pseudo tumor cerebri. If you have such issues, you do need expert neurological care.
Read more...

Cerebral vein thromb. It is formation of blood clots in cerebral veins/venous sinuses in brain. It could cause altered mental status or hemiplegia or stroke. In severe cases it needs open thrombectomy or thrombolytic therapy. If there are any seizures then it needs anticonvulsant medications.
Read more...

Hard to say. There may in fact be an underlying causation creating susceptibility to both, and one might consider an immune mediated process or even, something like one of the antiphospholipid antibody syndromes. However, the shingles did not cause the venous thrombosis. Yet, the two items signal some general pathology, and worthwhile to fully evaluate.
Read more...

Different techniques. Mri are better at seeing some soft tissue features; ct is better at bones and other soft tissue features like edema (swelling). The 2 techniques are complementary. That's why you got both. The fact that it isn't seen on one doesn't negate the fact that it was seen on the other. Example: if you misplace your keys and can't find them with sunglasses but do with bifocals, are they found?
Read more...

PERHAPS THIS . Mri probably is far better with brain lesions and cat superior for bone pathology. That said, likely without ct-angio or venogram, MRI better shot for venous thrombosis, and should have imaged optic nerves also more better. Maybe depends on whether read by neuroradiologist. Long and short, MRI is best choice for evaluation of specific brain lesions of all kinds.
Read more...